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Sesame Street breastfeeding clips

It's Sesame Street's 40th anniversary this week, and I thought I'd link back to posts I've done with breastfeeding videos from the show, just in case you missed any!

Sesame Street had it going on

Buffy nursing baby Cody

You're my baby (breastfeeding version)

Maria breastfeeds

I can't resist reposting this one of Buffy and Big Bird.  It's just too great.

Colbert Report shows new breastfeeding positions

I've been catching up on a few shows while waiting for H1N1 to run its course, and I found a clip on the Colbert Report which I thought you'd appreciate.  Sorry about the ad that precedes it. 

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On The View, Julie Bowen describes pumping while driving.

Speaking of pumping and working, here's a recent clip of Modern Family actress Julie Bowen on The View, describing pumping on the way to work for her twins. 

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Some favorite posts from the last three years.

Some of you - you know who you are - have been reading this blog since the beginning, and some of you are new to it. 

For everyone, but especially to those of you who are new to the blog, I thought I'd list some of my favorite posts from the nearly 700 I've posted since September of 2006:

From 2006-2007:

• I knew it was too quiet in there
• Take the Motherwear Pledge!
• Ready to fly
• The top 10 breastfeeding stories of 2006
• Want to know how to make me teary-eyed?
• Everything old is new again: cross nursing and wet nursing in the news
• Sittin' on the couch, saving the planet
• Who breastfeeds?
• Very, very wrong
• Brrr....ouch!  It's the season for Raynaud's
• Nursing in public around the world + part 2
• Were you sold out for a sandwich?

From 2007-2008:

• A good week
• Nursing mothers' rooms: convenience or quarantine?
• Is your pump talking to you?
• The top 10 breastfeeding stories of 2007
• A few things not on my holiday list
• They're lies!
• My favorite moments from breastfeeding classes
• Podcast: Heather Cushman-Dowdee, creator of Hathor the Cow Goddess
• Breastfeeding stand-up
• Lactation cookies
• Taking a bottle (mostly for the video)
• The things they say
• "Aren't you just doing that for yourself?"
• Preparing to breastfeed, when your sister is carrying your baby
• My favorite breastfeeding ad
• Can you be a feminist and breastfeed?

From 2008-2009:

• Podcast:  So, you want to work in breastfeeding support
• The contest entries that made me laugh
• Podcast:  Low milk supply - could it be your hormones?
• The top ten breastfeeding stories of 2008
• Podcast: What's the problem with those formula company diaper bags?
• Worried about environmental contaminants in breastmilk? Get the facts.
• Podcast: African American moms and breastfeeding
• "The Case Against Breastfeeding"
  
• Podcast: How do other mammals do it?
• Dr. Jenny on your relationship with your doctor: "We are the hired help"
• Podcast:  Early sexual abuse and breastfeeding
• CBS News shows why preemies need breastmilk
• Pollutants are everywhere - including formula
• I'm feeling proud today

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CNN anchor Campbell Brown on pumping at work, and the "fired for pumping" case

In introducing this story about the Ohio mother fired from Totes/Isotoner for pumping, CNN anchor Campbell Brown mentioned that she is pumping twice a day for her baby. 

It was also interesting to hear the mother in the case describe how she saw employees taking bathroom and smoking breaks with no reprimand.  The Ohio Supreme Court found that her termination was lawful because it was for failure to follow directions (and did not rule on the question of pregnancy discrimination), but apparently there are no sanctions for employees who take such breaks for other reasons.  Sound like pregnancy discrimination to you? 

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Nada como mamar.

I love this video from Spain.  I'm still working on my breastfeeding Spanish, but even without it the images are just perfect.  The moms in the ad are beautiful and hip and are are nursing in the park and on the bus. 

Reader Olga, who lives in Madrid, did me the favor of translating the audio.  You'll see the translation below.

If I told you a new formula has been released that increases your baby's defenses, would you give it to your baby?

If I told you we can have free nourishment for the first six months of your baby's life, would you believe me?

If I told you a company has patented packaging that keeps food ready 24hrs a day, keeping all its properties, would you buy it?

That formula exists. That food exists. That company exists.

Breastmilk is the best nourishment for your baby. It adapts to suit all your baby's needs, increasing his/her immune system. And besides, it is free.

Nothing like mom. Nothing like breastfeeding.

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Dr. Bobbi Phillip on how change happened at one hospital.

A few months ago a group of mothers and my breastfeeding coalition organized an event to advocate for our area hospitals to become Baby Friendly.  It was a big success.  We can't claim all the credit for this, but there are now several hospitals in our region planning to seek the award.

The biggest hit of the event was Dr. Bobbi Phillip, pediatrician and Medical Director of The Birth Place at Boston Medical Center.  While there are 16,000 Baby Friendly Hospitals in the world, there are only around 75 in the U.S., and one in Massachusetts.  Dr. Phillip was a driving force in the successful effort to get the award for her hospital.

I was really happy to find a series of videos which are essentially the talk she gave at our event.  I'm putting two segments up in which she discusses the effort to improve breastfeeding rates at Boston Medical Center, but the whole talk is really worth watching.  You can hear about the amazing effects of changing breastfeeding policies at her hospital, and her take on what happened to breastfeeding in the last hundred years. 

Her conclusion, speaking for the medical community: "We own most of this problem...the problem lies with us.  And we have to look seriously at what's going on."

You never know what you'll see in an ER.

Quite an innovative use of a Supplemental Nursing System, don't you think?  Latch looks a little too high, though.

Mothers' Milk Bank at Austin celebrates ten years

I thought that this news piece celebrating the ten year anniversary of the Mothers' Milk Bank at Austin was a nice tribute to donor milk banking.

And I love that the mother of babies who received donor milk is now the director of the milk bank!

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Mad about milk.

I thought you might enjoy this old Mad About You clip.  The adult-tasting-breastmilk gag isn't that original (it's one we talked about in this podcast on breastfeeding in the movies), but I did think the use of that pump was pretty funny!